Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: Hypnagogia

  I lie falling asleep - purple Rorschach blobs forming, transforming, unforming on the black field of my inner eyelids. The veneer of reality felt thinner,... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: 30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 by Steve Niles

  Amazon.in page This story takes the run-of-the-mill vampire tale into more chilling territory by setting it in Barrow (a town on the northern end of Alaska... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear

  Amazon.in page This is a collection of over one-hundred limericks by Edward Lear published in 1846. Limericks are a popular five-line poetic form with an A - A ... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Convent School by Rosa Coote

  The Convent School: Early Experiences of a Young Flagellant by Rosa Coote My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This novella is a work of Victorian erotica.... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

  One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This novel follows the founding family of the fictional... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Worlds, Real & Imagined

  Sitting in a café, watching snowfall collect, on the lamp-lit portion of a quiet side street. Mind struggling to create a fresh world of one's own, but unable t... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Rainy Dusk Haiku

  

  streetlamp in rain each droplet catches light, the drips glow monsoon rain-song isn't loud, but is deafening - ear-hushed / mind din cyclone residue crawls... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Freak Street

  

  In the dim lanes of the circus city, set wide of the world you've come to know, some part of a person vanishes - stripped away in silence and without warning -... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: A Dead Winter Stillness

  

  a faintly unnerving stillness burdens the forest -not a beast scurrying or digging -no birdcalls of alarm or affection frost glitters on the rooted earth when... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Wayward Memory

  

  I remember the feel of places past better than I do the sights. I remember more azure skies than I do those dark nights. Of colored lights and germicide my... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Dry Fountain Wishes

  

  Sly town stretches along the sea, backed by sacred mountains. And amid shabby, city streets sits a broken fountain. And when the church bells peal at dusk, the... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Breath

  Breath unfolds the soul, expanding a crumpled shell until it is proudly rotund. And that air fuels fires - brightly burning white-hot fires that flash-fry evil... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Memory & Instinct

  That castle had a dark passage. Winding minefields lined the passage. Each step called for a memory - an ancient memory scored deeply in the DNA of man. But... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Memetic by James Tynion IV & Eryk Donovan

  Amazon.in page This story takes what happens to a brain on memes to an extreme (if absurd) conclusion. (To get the most out of the story, one needs to understan... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

  Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page "Titus Andronicus" is Shakespearean tragedy at its most brutal. The play... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Tremor Dose by Michael Conrad

  Amazon.in page Full disclosure: I love trippy, mind-bending stories that use strategic ambiguity to keep one guessing about what's truly happening. This is... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks

  Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Jean Baudrillard was a French Postmodernist philosopher who... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta

  Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This book does a good job of showing that... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Pale Rider by Laura Spinney

  Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Before the present-day COVID-19... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Avalanche Prone

  

  The snow fell everyday, fell slowly and softly. It piled into hills high, making mountains lofty. And avalanches slid in rumbling certainty, collapsing like... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL